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Originally Posted by parisron
No wonder it was the biggest field/prize pool ever. So many people winning seats. lol
I also got staked that year in a $1500 event which only had 1500 starting chips, what joke. Now its 4500. Started at 25/25 with 1 hour levels tho.
In that tourney I cashed and made the money sitting next to TJ Cloutier. He was cool, we were bsing and he was saying he has the most cashes ever, etc.
Man, that was a fun year! So many sites had huge rooms set up around the Rio. IIRC, Bodog hired a bunch of strippers and gave a lot of other goodies to cater to the players in the Bodog lounge. Money was flowing everywhere. It looked like the sky was the limit and 20,000 in the main event was being talked about and then the US government killed the party.
I was horrible at poker, still am compared to most but despite that, I won my seat in perhaps one of the luckiest ways possible. I was heads up with a big chip lead but went on winners tilt and donked my stack off finishing second for nothing. I hadn't played in months so I was feeling pretty good about myself for getting second but as time wore on, I started feeling sicker and sicker about the opportunity I had just blown. So much so I couldn't bring myself to read the emails that Bodog was sending me; surely reminding me of my loss and spamming me to try again. A day or so later, I finally read the email and it says something like:
"it is Bodogs policy to award only one WSOP package per player, XXX who you came second to has already won a WSOP Package. Therefore, because you came in second in tourney XXX, you will receive the WSOP package, congrats"
I about fell out of my chair, talk about a horseshoe my arse